The best 10 albums ever made ACCORDING TO YOU!

1ThoughtKnown

brianlux said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

brianlux said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

brianlux said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
Rush - 2112
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
Beatles - Revolver
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Pearl Jam - No Code
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

Leaving Suicidal Tendencies, Mark Lanegan, Faith No More or King’s X off this list was difficult. 

A lot of top-tier stuff there, for sure!

Thanks Brian! Your list is great as well. The Robert Johnson one especially. Love that album  

Sure thing, 1T!  This has been fun.  I'm enjoying seeing all this lists... and learning that there are some glaring gaps in my record collection!

I checked and I’m only missing 3 off your list. I’m going to Spotify them when travelling for work and give them a listen and see if I need to add them to my Discogs want list 👍.  Since your list was first I’ll start there lol

While the Hip were relatively unknown to our friends across the border they still had pockets where they were well known. Upstate New York, New England and Washington State particularly. If you have never listened to them I strongly encourage you to give Day For Night a listen. It’s a great introduction to the band. While I LOVE all their albums, it is the defining album for the band IMO.  Some may not agree, but it is similar to No Code in that it is an album that saw an already very successful rock band go in a new direction, one that was artistically different and somewhat risky but showed what talented songwriters and musicians they are. Cheers B! 

I must check out Day for Night, 1T!  Your mentioning it reminded me that I had read something in the AllMusic review about it but couldn't remember so I looked it up.  AM 's review in words seems fair enough (https://www.allmusic.com/album/day-for-night-mw0000627518 ) but they only gave it three stars.  The fan's reviews disagree with that rating, one saying:

"Come on, AllMusic, this album deserves way more than three stars!
The problem with reviewing the Tragically Hip is that their albums demand repeated listenings before their depth is fully revealed--which is not to say that all of the Hip's albums are great, but most of them get better with age.
This album is the Hip's greatest achievement."

and another that says:

"....and out of the muck, comes an album so dark and absorbing, you'll have to hold on to not get sucked in to its void. ...the fact is, in the U.S.A., this band is little known and never critically praised. If you are reading this, I implore you to enrich your life with this band."

I must do that!

I look forward to reading your (and Lou’s) thoughts on the album after you have a listen. 😎

1ThoughtKnown

goldrush said:

A top 10 in no particular order...

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost 
SeBADoh - Bakesale
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
You Am I - Hourly, Daily
R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle 
dEUS - The Ideal Crash

...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut 

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion 
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

speaking as a child of the 90's....

^^^ Four albums I strongly considered for my list. 

Quite the list here, there are several albums I’ve never heard and some artists I either don’t recall or have never heard. More stuff to check out! 

brianlux

goldrush said:

A top 10 in no particular order...

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost 
SeBADoh - Bakesale
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
You Am I - Hourly, Daily
R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle 
dEUS - The Ideal Crash

...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut 

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion 
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

speaking as a child of the 90's....

Nice and nice!

rgambs

2-feign-reluctance said:

rgambs said:

Not truly objective top 10 material, but Blues Traveler Four and Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are both incredible albums that would make my personal top ten.

Recently picked up Four on CD and was blown away! I saw them live once back in the 90s
when I was in college, had a few CD singles but never listened to all of that particular record. 

The album tracks don't have the super memorable hooks of Run Around and Hook, but they are really good.  Every time I bust it out I remember how much I forgot how heavily rhythm and riff based their songs are.  It's easy to miss the bass and guitar with Poppers vocals and harmonica work, but songs like Crash Burn are almost Zeppelin like in the rhythm and riff aspect.
The lyrics for Just Wait and Long Way to Fall are pretty awesome too.

"The answers 

Are getting harder and harder

And there ain't no way to bargain or to barter

But if you've got the angst or you've got the ardor

You might faint from the fight but you're gonna find it

For every challenge could have paradise behind it

And if you accept what you have lost and you stand tall

You might just get it back and you can get it all

So now you know why it's a long way to fall"

💙🎵Blues Traveler

goldrush

1ThoughtKnown said:

goldrush said:

A top 10 in no particular order...

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost 
SeBADoh - Bakesale
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
You Am I - Hourly, Daily
R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle 
dEUS - The Ideal Crash

...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut 

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion 
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

speaking as a child of the 90's....

^^^ Four albums I strongly considered for my list. 

Quite the list here, there are several albums I’ve never heard and some artists I either don’t recall or have never heard. More stuff to check out! 

It was really hard to leave Daydream Nation out of my top 10 for sure. And there's no way I could put together a list without some Lanegan or Lou Barlow on it.

I just spotted Zen Arcade on your list, that's a great record I need to play again soon. 

brianlux

goldrush said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

goldrush said:

A top 10 in no particular order...

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (but I could have a picked at least a dozen others)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost 
SeBADoh - Bakesale
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
You Am I - Hourly, Daily
R.E.M. - New Adventures in HiFi
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle 
dEUS - The Ideal Crash

...and 10 that didn't quite make the cut 

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Chemical Bothers - Exit Planet Dust
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony & Musical Companion 
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

speaking as a child of the 90's....

^^^ Four albums I strongly considered for my list. 

Quite the list here, there are several albums I’ve never heard and some artists I either don’t recall or have never heard. More stuff to check out! 

It was really hard to leave Daydream Nation out of my top 10 for sure. And there's no way I could put together a list without some Lanegan or Lou Barlow on it.

I just spotted Zen Arcade on your list, that's a great record I need to play again soon. 

Yes and yes!

2-feign-reluctance

@dankind
By The Way! Such a gorgeous record. Head over heals in love with that one. I remember when the local Warner rep came to our store to bring some posters and promos completely bagging the album as ‘garbage.’ I remember blaring that record and The Strokes first one after close many, many nights. 

dankind

2-feign-reluctance said:

@dankind
By The Way! Such a gorgeous record. Head over heals in love with that one. I remember when the local Warner rep came to our store to bring some posters and promos completely bagging the album as ‘garbage.’ I remember blaring that record and The Strokes first one after close many, many nights. 

Heh. I think we both had the same job around the same time.

F Me In The Brain

Frusciante kills it 
Gonna have to listen to that today.